Design Manager
Manages the design for a designated section of the East West Rail project, leading the design team and quality-assuring supply-chain design outputs. Day to day involves administering the design process (assurance, change management, RFIs, BIM/CDM), tracking milestones and budgets, and managing design risk.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience working as Design Manager within a complex, safety-focused and regulated organisation with multiple complex interfaces, delivering to time, budget and quality
- Experience leading and/or participating in continuous improvement / innovation deployment in an engineering / construction environment
- Strong communication and influencing skills to negotiate and balance different stakeholder needs
- Deep understanding of design management, risk and control
Nice to have
- Good understanding of continuous improvement methodologies and ideas
- Knowledge of all procurement activities on a construction project
- Experience of project and programme management practices e.g. PRINCE2 or APM
- Experience of a construction environment and understanding of its operational complexities
Full description
**A little bit about us:
East West Rail is a nationally significant railway project which aims to deliver much-needed transport connections for the vibrant communities between Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bedford and Cambridge. Together these communities contribute around £111 billion to the national economy each year.
EWR is one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects, which the government committed to delivering in full in the Autumn 2024 Budget, and again in the 2025 Spending Review as part of its ambition to unlock the potential of the Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor.
EWR is being championed by the Government as a key driver to economic growth leading to a potential £78 Billion boost to the UK economy: supporting new towns, housing, and regeneration.
Role Summary:
This role will be responsible for managing the design for a designated section of the railway, leading the design team to produce an integrated design which meets requirements. Providing quality assurance of design work delivered by supply chain, managing outputs of the design supply chain.
Design Manager Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for providing a design service to the project, through managing and facilitating Technical Partner delivery.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Administer the design process.
- Facilitate all project processes in the production of the design – assurance, change management, RFI's, BIM/Digital, CDM etc.
- Identify and fill any process gaps where needed.
- Ensure milestones are being met.
- Manage the completion of milestone tasks such as DRN comments and responses, IDC certificates and signatures, ECC production.
- Ensure that all processes meet safety, legal, and other standards.
- Maintain records in accordance with quality assurance procedures.
Design inputs:
- Obtain design input information as required from within EWR or from external parties.
- Administer the RFI/TQ process within contractual timescales.
- Performance management
- Work with the project stakeholders to understand design needs.
- Measure design programme performance against agreed targets.
- Measure cost performance against the agreed budget.
Risk management:
- Identify design, programme and delivery risks.
- Develop mitigation strategies for the risks and monitor their implementation.
- Identify blockers and manage their removal. Create a plan, find the right people, and manage to a conclusion.
- Work with the Principal Designer team to ensure that CDM risks are captured, communicated and resolved in line with agreed process and timescales.